Bryan’s grandparents live in Wichita, Kansas, and last weekend, we flew out their for our annual visit.
Bryan was born in Wichita as were both his parents. Bryan’s family moved to lovely Austin, Texas for much of elementary school, while his dad went to graduate school. When Bryan was about 9, they moved back to Wichita, and he lived there until going to college (to meet me!) in 1996. Bryan and I got engaged in Wichita in 1998. And although Bryan’s parents don’t live there anymore, we really enjoy going back to see his grandparents and aunts and uncles.
For the past five years, we’ve been making an annual April pilgrimage to Wichita. Twelve months is a lot of time to go between visiting with Andrew and Sylvia’s great-grandparents, but we’re grateful to get to spend the time with them that we do. As may be expected, I took a fair number of photos of our visit. Yes. Quite a few photos. They can be viewed in the gallery.
Here are a few of my favorites of our grandparents.
Here is Grandma Jo outside her home.
Three generations: Grandma Harvey with her daughter and granddaughter. 
Sylvia and Grandpa Harvey. The two of them were so sweet together.
Here Sylvia is sitting on Grandma Harvey’s lap, packing her toys into Melanie’s pretty purse.
It is so fun to watch them all delight in each others’ company!
Here’s Grandpa Harvey chatting with Andrew.
And here are a few portraits I took.
Grandma Harvey
Grandpa Harvey (sans glasses)
Grandma and Grandpa (they are both turning 91 this year and celebrating their 76th wedding anniversary!!)
Grandma Joe, smiling and joking as always
I feel so lucky to have all these wonderful people in our lives. We miss Dandy…he passed away in 2007… What a treat to spend several days in the company of so many delightful family members. I loved watching Andrew and Sylvia interact with them all. More details about our trip (and photos too) are on their way!
Goodness Althea those pictures are truly a gift! They all look really healthy, Grandma Jo looks great, of course :L) and I love the portrait of Grandma Harvey, and her hands, The ones of Grandma and Grandpa Harvey with Sylvia are precious. She has the sweetest smile…. well I guess I love them all.
Those hands taught me how to make noodles for chicken and noodles! Very talented hands. Ok, I will quit now : )
Love those photos, Althea!! Thanks so much! They will be treasured forever. What a sweet post…Thanks!
Glad you all are enjoying the pictures. Our grandparents are such special people. I'm glad I was able to get some nice photos of them.
Goodness Althea those pictures are truly a gift! They all look really healthy, Grandma Jo looks great, of course :L) and I love the portrait of Grandma Harvey, and her hands, The ones of Grandma and Grandpa Harvey with Sylvia are precious. She has the sweetest smile…. well I guess I love them all.
Those hands taught me how to make noodles for chicken and noodles! Very talented hands. Ok, I will quit now : )
Love those photos, Althea!! Thanks so much! They will be treasured forever. What a sweet post…Thanks!
These brought me to tears-miss my grandparents and all of you.
Glad you all are enjoying the pictures. Our grandparents are such special people. I'm glad I was able to get some nice photos of them.
Wonderful pictures! Sorry we missed you.